Americae tertia pars Memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe Po: & Med: addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, qua[m] ille initio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit
Subtitle: His accessit descriptio morum & ferocitatis incolarum illius regionis, atque colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum
By: Omnia recens evulgata, & eiconibus in aes incisis ac ad vivum expressis illustrata, ad normam exemplaris praedictorum autorum: studio & diligentia Theodori de Bry Leodiensis, atque civis Francofurtensis anno M DXCII
Contributors: Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611; Barré, Nicolas, active 1555
Edition: First edition
Series: Great voyages -- pt. 3.; Great voyages -- pt. 3.
Publisher: Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Theodori de Bry.
Published: 1597
Place of publication: Francofurti ad Moenum]
Language: lat; ger
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Indians of South America; Natural history; Tupi language; Glossaries, vocabularies; Indian linguistics; Description and travel; History
Other titles: Americae teria pars Memorabilem provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Privato Colchanthe Po: & Med: addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, quam ille initio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit.; Memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Pruvato Colchanthe Po: & Med: addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, qua[m] ille initio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit.; Memorabilem provinciae Brasiliae historiam continens, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioanne Stadio Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Privato Colchanthe Po: & Med: addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, quam ille initio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit.
Work titles: Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen
Notes: Place of publication from colophon.

Actual date of publication supplied by Church.

The first issue of the first Latin edition of part three was printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1592.

Constitutes the third part, second issue of the first Latin edition and/or the first issue of the second edition of Theodor de Bry's Great voyages, printed in fourteen parts, in Latin, German, French, and English, in Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1590-1644, and the Elenchus, an outline of the thirteen Latin parts, published by Matthias Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1634.

This work has been identified as a hybrid of the third part, second issue of the first edition and/or the first issue of the second edition of the first Latin edition of the Great voyages by Church.

The first and second issues of Latin part 3 can be identified by the imprint containing Sigismundo Feierabendi on the title page, leaf a3 has the seven coats of arms, which appear on the recto with blank spaces in the background, and the illustration on p. 52 duplicated and pasted over the proper illustration on p. 56; in the second issue the title page contains the imprint of Theodore de Bry; there is a leaf with the seven coat of arms with the blank spaces filled in by the six virtues bound as leaf a3; and the proper illustration appears printed on p. 56.

The second issue of Latin part three can be identified by the title page having the imprint of Theodor de Bry, there is a leaf with the seven coat of arms with the blank spaces filled in by the six virtues bound as leaf a3; and the proper illustration appears printed on p. 56; the first issue of the second edition of part three can be identified by having the an unengraved, plain title page on p. [135-136], with p. 144 being blank;

Latin translation, by Adam Lonicer, of: Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen, first printed Marburg, 1557.

Latin translation, by Jean de Léry, of: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, first printed La Rochelle, 1578 and which first appeared in Latin under title: Historia navigationis in Brasiliam, quae et America dicitur, Geneva, 1586.

Latin translation, by Charles de L'Écluse, of two letters by Nicolas Barré first printed in: Copie de quelques letres sur la navigation du chevalier de Villegaignon es terre de l'Amerique oultre l'oequinoctial, iusques soubz le Tropique de Capricorne, printed Paris, 1557, and again in Paris, 1558.

Colophon reads: Impressvm Francofvrti ad Moenvm, apvd Matthiam Beckervm, impensis Theodori de Bry. M D CV.

This part is made up of two separate narratives: the first is an account of two voyages made to Brazil in 1546-1548 and 1549-1555 by Johann von Staden. This narrative was originally written in German by the author and published at Marburg in 1557. The Latin translation, here given, is the work of Adam Lonicer. The second part is an account of a voyage to Brazil in 1556-1558, by Jean de Léry. The narrative of this voyage was originally published in French in 1578. The Latin translation appears to have been made by the author himself and was first published in 1586, from which was doubtless taken by De Bry. The two letters of Nicolas Barre, who accompanied Villegaignon, relate to Brazil and are dated the first of February and 25th of May, 1552. They are also to be found in Lescarbot's Histoire de la Nouuelle France (1609), pp. 146-163. Cf. Church.

"Navigatio in Brasiliam Americae qva avctoris navigatio, qvae memoriae prodenda in mari viderit, Brasiliensivm victvs & mores à nostris valde alieni, animalia etiam, arbores, herbae, & reliqua singularia nostris penitus incognita describuntur adiectus insuper dialogus eorum lingua conscriptus. A Ioanne Lerio Bvrgvndo Gallicè primum scripta deinde Latinitate donata. Variis autem figuris illustrata per Theodorum de Bry, Leo:", p. [135-136], has engraved title page with imprint: Francofvrti Venales reperiuntur in officina Theodori de Bry.

The "Navigatio in Brasiliam Americae qvae avctoris navigatio" beginning on p. [135-136] has sections on p. 186 and p. 190-193, which contain staves of music with chants in a native Brazilian language, and other scattered words in this language, which is spoken by the Tououpinambaultii people, possibly the Tupi tribe; also contains chants with music and native words on p. 226, 228, and 229; a dialogue in the [possible] Tupi language appears in Latin and Tupi on p. 250-266.

"Exemplar dvarvm litterarvm, qvibvs breviter explicantvr, et navigatio Nicolai Villagagnonis equitis Melitensis, in illam Americae prouinciam, qu[a]e vltra aequatorem ad Tropicum vsque Capricorni extenditur: & mores consuetudinesque incolarum eius regionis. Scriptae quidem illae ad flumen Ganabara (Lusitanis Rio de Genero dictum) & in Galliam missae à quodam è Villagagnonis domesticis: nunc vero recèns Latio donatae a C.C.A.", p. 285-295, has separate dated title page with imprint: Francofvrti typus Matthiae Beckeri, M D CV.

The C.C.A., on the title page on p. 285, are the initials of Carolus Clusius Artebatensis, i.e. Charles de L'Écluse, the celebrated botanist. Cf. Church.

Contains one double folded map of part of Central and South America bound between p. [8] and [9], 1st count, and 30 described engravings printed within the text, many of which are duplicated on other pages as listed by Church.

Signatures: a-b⁴ (a2 missigned a) (a1 verso blank) A-2Q⁴ (B4 missigned B3; Y2 missigned T2) (R4 verso, S4 verso, 2Q4 blank)

Includes index on p. 296, 2nd count and [1-13], 3rd count.

Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Cf. Alden, J.E. European Americana, 592/49.

Arents, G. Tobacco, 41.

Arents, G. Tobacco (additions), 13.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 149.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 390-391.